Geography
What is the only country in the world that is also a continent
Australia
What French dish involves slowly cooking duck in its own fat, resulting in tender, flavorful meat often served with crispy skin?
Confit de canard
What yellow animated family lives in the town of Springfield?
The Simpsons
What goes up but never comes down
Your age
Who is considered the father of value investing and wrote "The Intelligent Investor"?
Benjamin Graham
What country is home to the highest waterfall in the world, Angel Falls?
Venezuela
What fruit is known as "the king of fruits" and is infamous for its pungent odor, often banned in hotels and public transportation?
Durian
What is the name of Beyoncé's alter ego introduced with her I Am... album?
Sasha Fierce
What can run but never walks, has a bed but never sleeps, and has a mouth but never talks?
A river
What U.S. state has the most active volcanoes?
Alaska
Which country is credited with inventing the croissant?
Austria
What internet trend involved people dumping ice water over their heads for a good cause in 2014?
The Ice Bucket Challenge
If two’s company and three’s a crowd, what are four and five?
Nine
Which economic model suggests that stock prices reflect all available information and are always fairly valued?
The efficient market hypothesis (Eugene Fama)
Which country has the most time zones, including territories?
France (12 time zones, thanks to its overseas territories)
What is the world's most expensive spice by weight?
Saffron
What 2019 film, directed by Bong Joon-ho, made history by winning the Academy Award for Best Picture, becoming the first non-English language film to win that honor?
Parasite
What common five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
Short
What is used to discount the cash flows in the DCF-model?
WACC - (Weighted Average Cost of Capital)
What is the largest desert in the world, and where is it located?
The Antarctic Desert, located in Antarctica (largest cold desert)
What is the scientific term for the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth?
Arachibutyrophobia
What song has spent the most weeks atop the Billboard 100?
Old Town Road - Lil Nas X
What has cities, but no houses; forests, but no trees; and rivers, but no water?
A map
On the afternoon of Friday, August 13, 19XX, Burns, Connally, and Volcker, along with twelve other high-ranking White House and Treasury advisors, met secretly with which president to abandon the gold standard?
Nixon